Season Is a Dose Decision, Not a Shelf: Building an Indian Seasonal Attar Wardrobe From Real Preferences

Season Is a Dose Decision, Not a Shelf: Building an Indian Seasonal Attar Wardrobe From Real Preferences

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★ ★ The dial you already own does most of the work a second seasonal bottle was supposed to do, and it costs nothingSOSA Adaa 6ml ₹669 for eight or nine months of an Indian year · SOSA Nawaab 3ml ₹399 for the eveningsNo temperature, humidity or rainfall figure appears anywhere in this family; SOSA publishes no climate data of any kind
The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the reader with four seasonal bottles and a suspicion that two of them are the same answer at different volumes
  • 1 Season changes the dose before it changes the bottle. Warm skin releases an oil faster than cool skin does, so the same application is a bigger event in May than in December - which is why most seasonal fragrance questions have a free answer.
  • 2 SOSA publishes one performance figure: six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. That second clause is the whole of this page's argument, and it is on the product pages rather than being my invention.
  • 3 The seasonal pair that genuinely contrasts is Adaa and Nawaab, which have one published material in common, white musk. Every other pairing in the range shares more, and two of them share five.
  • 4 Size follows frequency, not importance. In most Indian cities the hot and wet months outnumber the cool ones two or three to one, so the light bottle is the 6ml at ₹669 and the deep one stays a 3ml at ₹399.
  • 5 Three of this family's nine other pages end in a dose change rather than a purchase - the monsoon slot, the in-between months and the third seasonal bottle. Those are not evasions; they are the answers that survived the arithmetic.
★ See SOSA Adaa - the eight-month bottle ₹669 Ask Sonal to read your year ₹0
★ The two bottles a seasonal year actually needs, and the two that are preferences rather than seasons
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 6ml ₹669Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - no oudh, no amber, and the bottle that covers the hot months and the wet ones at two different settingsView Adaa →SOSA Nawaab AttarSOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - the one slot in an Indian year that a light attar cannot cover at any quantityView Nawaab →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - the warm floral alternative to Nawaab, and a choice between the two rather than a pairView Ameeri →
✓ Every note and price here is quoted off the live SOSA product pages ✓ Where a page in this family ends in a dose change rather than a purchase, it says so and prices it at nothing ✓ The only performance figure quoted anywhere here is the published six to eight hours on skin

Founder Diaries · Fragrance Wardrobes · What to Buy Next
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 23 min read Updated October 2026
Here is the argument this whole family of pages rests on, stated once and properly: a season changes the dose before it changes the bottle. Heat does not make your fragrance wrong. It makes more of your fragrance reach the air, sooner, because warm skin releases an oil faster than cool skin does - which is why SOSA's own product pages say six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. The consequence is that the same dab is a different event in May and in December. And once you accept that, most of the questions that start "which fragrance should I buy for summer" turn out to be questions about your hand rather than your shelf.
Quick answers — read this first
Do I need different fragrances for summer and winter in India? Less often than the question assumes. Warm skin drives an oil off faster, so the same application reads larger in the heat - which means halving or doubling a dose covers most of what a second seasonal bottle was going to do. Where two bottles genuinely help is weight: a light composition cannot be made heavy by using more of it. So one light attar, Adaa, and one deep one, Nawaab, is the most a normal Indian year needs.

Which SOSA attar is the summer one and which is the winter one? Adaa at ₹379 for 3ml or ₹669 for 6ml is the hot-weather bottle - bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no oudh, amber or vanilla in it. Nawaab at ₹399 is the cold-weather one - oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and musk. Those two have one published material in common, which is the widest gap in the range.

How much should I change the application between seasons? Roughly half in the heat and roughly double in the cold, from whatever you settle on in between. One dab of a light attar is a complete wear on a hot day; two dabs plus a point at the base of the throat is the ceiling for a cold evening. The published figure of six to eight hours on skin applies either way - a larger application does not buy more hours, it buys a denser first hour.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy one light attar in the larger size and move your hand with the weather. Adaa at ₹669 for the 6ml covers the hot months at one dab and the wet ones at two, because warm skin releases an oil faster and the same quantity therefore does more in May than in December. Add a deep bottle only for weight, never for weather: the one thing a light composition cannot do at any quantity is feel heavy, and that is what a cold evening sometimes wants. Nawaab at ₹399 is that bottle.
The pick: Adaa 6ml ₹669 as the year's bottle, and Nawaab 3ml ₹399 if your year has dressed-up evenings in it. Ameeri at ₹385 instead of Nawaab - never beside it - if you want the warm end to be floral rather than leathery.
Next step: work through the nine pages in this family from the grid below: summer and winter as two bottles, Pune in three seasons, monsoon and winter in one bottle, the third bottle that has no slot. Or tell me how your year actually goes and I will read it back to you as doses and bottles.
In this guide
Straight answer
How should I build a seasonal attar wardrobe for an Indian year, and how many bottles does one actually need?
One light attar in the 6ml, one deep attar in the 3ml, and a dial between them. Adaa at ₹669 and Nawaab at ₹399, in that order, and most readers should buy the first one and wait. The reasoning is the thing worth taking away, because it applies to any brand's range and not only to mine. First, the mechanism. An attar is perfume oil on a carrier - mine is sandalwood and jojoba - with no alcohol in it. An alcohol spray lifts its composition into the air as the carrier evaporates, which is most of what happens in the first few minutes. An oil has no such engine, so it sits where you put it and releases material slowly, driven by the warmth of your own skin. Your skin is the engine. And in the hot months the engine is running faster, which is exactly why the published figure reads six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. Second, what follows from it. If warmth drives the release, then the same quantity of the same oil is not the same experience in two different months. One dab in December is modest. The same dab in May is doing noticeably more work, sooner. So when a reader tells me a fragrance has "turned" in the heat, or become cloying, or stopped suiting them in April, the first thing I ask is not what they are wearing but how much. Most of the time the composition is innocent and the hand is the problem. Third, the direction this cuts. It cuts both ways, and the second way is the one people miss. In cold dry air, less gets driven off, the opening passes quickly, and you spend most of the wear in the base line. A light composition in that air can seem to have disappeared when nothing has changed about it at all, and the fix is a second dab rather than a heavier bottle. So: halve in the heat, double in the cold, both from whatever quantity you settled on in between. That is the whole dial, and it is free. Fourth, where a dial stops and a bottle starts. I am not arguing that one attar covers every occasion, because there is one thing quantity cannot do. A light composition cannot be made heavy by using more of it - four dabs of a dry green attar is four dabs of a dry green attar, not an oud. Weight is a property of construction. So the honest test for a second seasonal bottle is: is there a kind of evening in my year that wants weight rather than volume? If yes, buy the deep one. If no, the second bottle is a preference and you should call it that. Fifth, the sizes, which is where most seasonal shelves go wrong. Count the months. In Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru or Delhi, the hot and wet stretches together are eight or nine months and the cool window is ten or twelve weeks. So the bottle you will empty is the light one, and the larger size belongs behind it: Adaa as the 6ml at ₹669, Nawaab as the 3ml at ₹399. The instinct runs the other way because the cold-weather bottle feels like the important one, and that instinct is how a shelf ends up holding most of an expensive attar worn four times a year. And sixth, the structural constraint underneath all of it. Four attars do not give you four unrelated years. Three of the four carry oudh, three name sandalwood and all four are carried on it, three open on bergamot. The only pair that genuinely divides a calendar is Adaa and Nawaab, which have white musk in common and nothing else. Everything else you might buy "for a season" is closer to something you already own than the copy suggests, which is why this family has three pages that end in a dose change and one that ends in ₹0.

Why heat changes the dose: the mechanism, properly

It is worth being precise here, because "fragrance behaves differently in summer" is the kind of sentence everybody nods at and nobody can act on. The actionable version has three parts.

One: an alcohol-free oil has no volatile carrier. In a spray, ethanol flashes off within minutes and takes a proportion of the composition with it into the air around you - which is why a spray has a burst and then a long decline. An oil has no burst. It has a slow, warmth-driven release from the surface you applied it to, and that release rate is governed by how warm that surface is.

Two: your skin is warmer in the heat and cooler in the cold, and so is the air immediately around it. Warmer surface, faster release. That means a given quantity of oil is spent sooner and is more present while it lasts. The published six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, is the brand's own way of saying the same thing from the other end.

Three: therefore quantity is the correct control. If the same dab is more present in May, then less of it in May restores what you liked about it, and more of it in December restores what the cold took away. This is not a trick to avoid selling you something. It is the reason three of the nine pages in this family end with a free answer, and it is the single most useful thing I know about wearing oil perfume in this country.

The SOSA principle
Heat does not change what is in the bottle. It changes how fast the bottle leaves your skin - so the control is the quantity you put on, and the quantity is free.
Which is why I would rather teach the dial than sell the fourth bottle. The reader who learns it buys fewer bottles and keeps all of them.

The dial itself, with every setting named

The dial, from the hottest afternoon to the coldest evening
Every setting this family uses, in one place
Where, and how much What that does When it is the right choice
Half of your usual, one wrist, applied late Restores a composition that has started to seem heavy in the heat, by putting less material on a surface that is releasing it faster The hot months, and the first thing to try before deciding a bottle has stopped suiting you
One dab, one wrist The baseline. A complete wear for a light attar and a generous one for a deep attar, in any weather Most working days, most of the year, and every first wear of a new bottle
Two dabs, one on each wrist, applied on arrival Doubles the material without concentrating it, and starts the published six to eight hours at the point your day begins rather than at your front door Damp weather, long commutes, and any day a single dab has gone quiet before lunch
Two dabs plus a point at the base of the throat Adds a surface your own warmth keeps working on steadily, so the base line stays legible at hour five instead of fading with the opening Cold dry evenings, long dinners, and the few genuinely cold nights an Indian year contains
Nothing at all The honest setting for the worst afternoons of the hot season, when anything on warm skin is going to do more than you intended A handful of days a year, and a useful reminder that the dial has a bottom as well as a top
Five settings, and between them they answer more seasonal questions than the four-bottle shelf does. Work down this table before any purchase on this family's other nine pages.

All nine pages in this family, resolved

The season family, routed
Find your own situation, and the lever to move before you spend anything
If this is you The lever to move first Where to go next
Two bottles for a hot country and a cold season, and no more Buy the contrast pair rather than two mid-weight bottles - and put the larger size behind the one you wear more months The summer-and-winter page, which lands on Adaa 6ml and Nawaab 3ml
A shelf of heavy ambers and nothing wearable in the heat Halve the dose of what you own first; then buy the dry green end rather than a lighter amber The hot-weather three-way, where vetiver, clean musk and light floral turn out to be one bottle
Fresh and aquatic summer bottles, and nothing for the cold Pick a warm direction and buy one bottle of it. Your shelf has no overlap with any of mine, which makes this the easiest answer in the family The winter-addition page, which chooses between Nawaab and Ameeri on dryness
Three distinct seasons and a plan to buy three bottles Ask which of the three slots needs weight. The wet season almost never does, and that is where the third bottle was going The Pune wardrobe page, which fills three seasons with two bottles and a free setting
A fresh woody summer shelf and a December full of functions Shop for the register your shelf has none of - a flower and a warm base - rather than for something heavier than what you own The December wedding page, which lands on Ameeri and halves the dose for indoor halls
A wet season and a dry cold one, and a suspicion you need both One composition, two settings: two dabs on arrival in the damp, two dabs before you leave in the cold The monsoon-or-winter page, which costs the second bottle at nothing
Perfumes that have started to seem too sweet on a long humid commute Read the base lines of your own bottles and find the word - vanilla, tonka, a fruit or a resinous amber - before buying anything The sweetness audit, which lands on Adaa and moves the application to the desk
A sandalwood you like, and a warm amber you want that does not repeat it Change the job sandalwood does rather than trying to avoid it, because all four of mine are carried on it The warm-amber page, which lands on Nawaab unless your own bottle is Mysore-dominant
A vetiver for the heat, an oud for the cold, and a rose in the basket Name the days the third bottle would be worn. If one of your two already covers them, the bottle is an option rather than an answer The third-bottle page, which recommends ₹0 and states the one condition that changes it
Nine pages, and three of them end without a purchase. That is not modesty - it is what happens when you put the dial in front of the shelf, and it is the reason this family exists as a family rather than as nine product recommendations.

The seasonal pairs, counted off the pyramids

The three pairs a seasonal shelf actually chooses between
Shared published materials, and what each pair does to a calendar
The pair Overlap Verdict Shared published materials What that means for you
Adaa + Nawaab 0.07 The widest contrast in the range white musk only The seasonal pair. One material in common, so a year spent in these two is genuinely two different years.
Adaa + Ameeri 0.13 Genuine contrast bergamot and white musk The same structure with a warm floral at the cold end instead of a leathery one. A real division of a year.
Ameeri + Nawaab 0.50 Heavy overlap saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk Not a seasonal pair at all, however it reads in the copy - five published materials and the heaviest overlap in the range.
The bottom row is the purchase this family is most often asked about and least able to recommend: two warm bottles, one for autumn and one for deep winter, which in this range is one warm bottle bought twice.

Three things the dial cannot do

A teaching is only useful if it comes with its own boundary, so here is where this one stops. There are three things a change of quantity will never do for you, and recognising them is how you tell a genuine second bottle from a bottle bought because a calendar has twelve months in it.

The first is weight. Quantity scales how much of a composition reaches the air; it does not change what that composition is made of. Four dabs of a dry green attar is four dabs of a dry green attar, not an oud - the base notes are still white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, and no amount of them produces leather. So if there is an evening in your year that wants density and depth rather than more of what you own, the dial has nothing to offer and a second bottle is the honest answer. That is the whole reason Nawaab appears in this family at all.

The second is register. A light attar at a larger application is not a floral, not a gourmand and not an aquatic. If your year contains a kind of occasion that wants a flower - a festive evening, a wedding season, anything where you want warmth with a rose in it - the dial will not supply one, and Ameeri or Mastani is a real purchase rather than a seasonal indulgence. Equally, if what you want is something with no relation at all to a warm woody base, no attar in this range gets you there, because all four sit on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier. The perfume oils are where that break lives.

The third is the simplest and the one nobody says aloud: a bottle you have stopped liking. Taste moves, and a fragrance you have worn for three years can become a fragrance you put down, for reasons that have nothing to do with the weather and that no change of application reaches. When that is what has happened, I would rather you called it that than bought a seasonal bottle as a polite way of replacing something. The replacement purchase and the seasonal purchase are different decisions, and they often point at different bottles.

Quantity changes how much of a composition reaches the air. It does not change what the composition is, which is the exact line where a dial stops and a second bottle starts.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA

What I would buy for an Indian year, in what order

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa 6ml first, Nawaab 3ml second, and nothing else until the dial runs out
A dial costs nothing and a bottle costs ₹399. I would rather teach the first and sell one of the second than sell four and teach nothing.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy first The Adaa 6ml at ₹669 - eight or nine months of an Indian year, at two different settings
What to buy second The Nawaab 3ml at ₹399, and only for weight rather than for weather
The substitution The Ameeri 3ml at ₹385 in place of Nawaab if you want the warm end floral. One of the two, never both
The dial, in one line Half in the heat, double in the cold, and apply on arrival rather than before a commute
What I would not buy A mid-weight third bottle for the in-between months. That is the dial's job and the dial is free
When one bottle is the whole answer If your cool season is a fortnight, or if nothing in your year asks for weight. Buy the 6ml and come back in a year
If you want an order of operations rather than a shopping list: buy the 6ml, learn the five settings on the dial over one full year, and keep a note of the occasions where the bottle was wrong rather than the amount. If there are none, you have a complete seasonal wardrobe for ₹669 and you should feel pleased about it. If there are three or four, they will all turn out to be evenings that wanted weight, and that is what the second bottle is for. Readers who buy in that order own two attars they both wear; readers who buy four seasonal bottles at once usually wear one of them.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669
If you move between genuinely different climates every month - a job that takes you from Chennai to Delhi to Pune and back through the year - then the dial stops being enough, because you are not moving through a season slowly, you are stepping between two of them in the same week. Two bottles carried together is the honest answer there, and the sizes flip: two 3mls rather than a 6ml and a 3ml, because you will be packing them rather than keeping them.
— the condition that changes this answer
You came for a seasonal wardrobe. The honest version of it is one bottle, one dial and a second bottle later - so here are those two routes.
One is the eight-month bottle. One is me reading your year back to you.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669
The bottle this whole family lands on: no oudh, no amber, no vanilla, no resin, and the only one of the four that covers both the hot months and the wet ones at two different settings.
Ask Sonal to read your year
Tell me your city, how many months you would call hot, wet and cool, and how many dressed-up evenings you have. I will give you back a list of doses and, if one is needed, a bottle.
SS
ISIPCA
Versailles
A note from Sonal

I did not arrive at this argument by theory. I arrived at it by answering the same email for two years. Somebody writes in June asking for a monsoon fragrance, and again in November asking for a winter one, and when I went back through those exchanges I noticed that the readers who had bought a second bottle in June were writing again in November, and the readers who had been told to use more of the first one were not writing at all.

The four-season shelf is also a borrowed idea. Most fragrance writing comes out of places with four long distinct seasons and a retail calendar built around them. An Indian year is a long hot stretch, a wet stretch and a short cool window, and two of those three want the same thing from a composition. Importing a four-bottle convention into that produces a shelf with two bottles doing one job.

So this is the page I would hand a new customer before any of the others, including the ones that recommend something. The dial first, the bottle second, and the second bottle only when the dial has run out of settings. It is a worse sales pitch and a better answer, and the nine pages this one links to all end up in the same place.

Frequently asked questions

Do I really need separate summer and winter attars?
Usually one bottle and two settings will do more for you than two bottles will. Warm skin releases an oil faster, so the same application is a larger event in the heat - halve it in May and double it in December and most of the seasonal difference is handled. The exception is weight: a light composition cannot be made heavy by applying more of it, so if your year has evenings that want weight, that is a genuine second bottle.
What does heat actually do to an oil attar?
It speeds up the release. An attar has no alcohol in it to lift the composition, so your own skin warmth drives the material off, and a warmer surface releases faster. That is why the published figure is six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. The practical effect is that the same dab is more present and spent sooner in the hot months than in the cool ones.
How much should I apply in the hot months compared with the cold ones?
Roughly half as much in the heat and roughly twice as much in the cold, measured against whatever you settle on in between. One dab on one wrist is a complete wear for a light attar in hot weather. Two dabs plus a point at the base of the throat is the ceiling for a cold evening. More application does not buy more hours; it buys a denser first hour.
Which two SOSA attars genuinely divide an Indian year?
Adaa and Nawaab. They have one published material in common, white musk, which makes them the widest contrast in the range. Adaa is bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no oudh at all. Nawaab is white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and musk.
Which bottle should be the larger size in a seasonal pair?
The one you wear more months, which in most Indian cities is the light one. The hot and wet stretches together are eight or nine months and the cool window is ten or twelve weeks, so Adaa takes the 6ml at 669 rupees and Nawaab stays a 3ml at 399. Putting the larger size behind the special bottle is how a shelf ends up holding most of an attar worn four times a year.
Is there a season that needs no purchase at all?
The wet one, almost always. Damp, cooler, closed-in air wants a light unsweetened composition at a larger application, which is the bottle you already bought for the hot months used differently. Three of the nine pages in this family end in a dose change rather than an order, and the monsoon slot is the clearest of them.
The whole family in one line
Half in the heat, double in the cold, and buy the second bottle for weight rather than for weather.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Want your year read back to you?
SOSA — Send me your city, your months and your evenings. I will give you back a list of doses and, where one is genuinely needed, a bottle. Three of the nine pages in this family end without a purchase, and yours might be one of them.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin · no temperature, humidity or rainfall figure appears anywhere in this family
Ask Sonal which one stays close → SOSA Adaa Attar · ₹379
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About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. It is written for a reader who already owns a fragrance and wants the next one to be genuinely different, and the method - read the published base lines, count the shared materials, then decide - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.

On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.

On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.

What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, and no medical, dermatological or allergy claim; anyone with sensitive skin or a fragrance allergy should patch-test and use their own judgement or consult a doctor.

Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: every SOSA attar is an alcohol-free, DPG-free oil perfume carried on sandalwood and jojoba oil with a built-in dab applicator, hand-blended in Pune, sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the only one of the four with no oudh. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk. SOSA Mastani (₹389 · ₹685 · ₹1,179): litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. SOSA Nawaab (₹399 · ₹699 · ₹1,199): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Separately, SOSA makes six perfume oils in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Zaffran, Tabac Noir and Samundar at ₹599, ₹1,799 and ₹3,499, and Khayaal, Chashni and Bahaar at ₹599, ₹1,899 and ₹3,599 - each an independent SOSA composition inspired by a widely known fragrance and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the house named. SOSA does not run a sampler or tester programme; the 3ml attar is the trial size. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
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